Erich Gruber

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Erich Gruber (born September 17, 1884 in Trumau ; † November 25, 1953 ) was an Austrian lawyer, SS brigade leader and long-time regional president in the Reichsgau Niederdonau during the Second World War .

Life

Gruber graduated after graduation to study law at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1908 for Doctor of Law . Then he hit the civil service career at the Austrian State Railways . As a reserve officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army , he took part in the First World War with the Mountain Rifle Regiment, received several awards and achieved the rank of first lieutenant .

After the war he joined the Federal Ministry of Finance . He was promoted to Ministerial Council in 1926 . In 1934 Gruber moved from the Ministry of Finance to the Federal Chancellery despite his extreme German-national sentiments: he had belonged to the Pan-German Association , the Greater German People's Party , the Heimatschutz and from 1930 the NSDAP . From 1937 he worked in the office of the Federal Chancellery in the area of ​​personnel matters.

After the " Anschluss of Austria " in March 1938, he was Commissioner for Personnel Matters at the office of the Reich Governor . From 1939 until the end of the war in 1945 Gruber was President of the Niederdonau district under Hugo Jury . Admitted to the SS on April 20, 1944 with the rank of SS-Oberführer (SS-Nr. 487,558), he was promoted to SS-Brigadführer on November 9, 1944 .

After the war ended, Gruber was accused of high treason and sentenced in 1949 to five years in prison . The Mayor of Linz, Ernst Koref , had campaigned for Gruber after consultation with an Austrian section head and recommended in a letter to the Austrian Minister of Justice Josef Gerö in April 1949 that Gruber should be pardoned because he is said not to have committed any crimes.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 215f.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Edmund Glaise von Horstenau, Peter Broucek (Ed.): A General in the Twilight: The Memories of Edmund Glaises von Horstenau , Volume 2, Vienna 1983, pp. 95f.
personal data
SURNAME Gruber, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, district president and SS brigade leader
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Trumau
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1953